Chapter 1202 The Army Comes From the West

"Click".

After much difficulty and danger, the cavalry is finally hanging the iron chain on the custom-made iron ring at the end of the crossbow bolt.

After completing the task, the team was relieved and looked around. In a team of a hundred people, only four could stand still, and the rest were either killed or seriously injured and fell to the ground.

Seeing the team looking over, the wounded on the ground grinned, "Captain, you go, leave us alone." The journey was difficult, and going back was naturally not easy.

It is almost impossible to rush out with the wounded like them.

When they took on the task, they were ready to die.

The team leader was extremely stubborn, without saying a word, he rushed out with a wounded on his back. Seeing this, the remaining four followed suit, each carrying one, braving the arrow rain, rushing back and forth.

Whether he can survive can only be left to fate.

Seeing the division commander in the distance, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Yes, this is like my soldiers. Send an order to send a team up to respond, and the rest will provide fire cover."

"promise!"

While speaking, a group of cavalry rushed out.

The cavalry in the front row bent their bows and set up arrows one by one, pouring rain of arrows on the city to interfere with the enemy's attack.

When the guard at the top of the city saw him, he said in a cold voice, "Do you still want to leave? Stop them!" If the enemies were allowed to come and go freely, the Great Zhou army would lose all face.

"promise!"

The two sides poured rain of arrows at each other, and they fought happily.

Perhaps it was really God's blessing that under such a dense rain of arrows, all ten cavalrymen successfully merged with the supporting troops, and none of them fell behind.

The guard at the top of the city saw him with a gloomy face.

What really changed the guard of the city was yet to come. After the cavalry came back, the Great Xia Imperial Army made a new move. I saw eight tallest and mightiest iron-clad beasts, wearing sets of poles and pulling iron chains, and began to move.

The long iron chain stretched straight.

At this point, the secret weapon of the Great Xia Forbidden Army was revealed in its entirety. It was to use the crossbow bolts that penetrated into the city gate and cooperate with the brute force of the armored beast to bring down the city gate.

"drink!"

Under the command of the knight, the eight armored beasts exerted their strength in unison and rushed forward. Because their hooves gripped the ground too hard, they even stomped down on the ground, showing their strength.

"Moo~~~"

The head of the armored beast leaned forward slightly, its front paws gripped the ground hard, and it struggled forward.

Under the violent pull of the armored beast, the city gate made a "creak~~crunch~~" sound, and the door bolt had begun to deform, appearing overwhelmed.

Seeing this, the faces of the defenders at the top of the city changed drastically, and only then did they understand the enemy's true intentions.

"General, what should we do?"

Thinking that if the gate of the city was pulled down, the 200,000 Great Xia Imperial Guards would rush into the city, and the generals of the Great Zhou would turn pale.

The city guard is also helpless.

The iron chain can't be splashed with oil, and it's even more immune to arrows. Even if it is hit with a stone, because the iron chain is already taut, the stone will be bounced off when it hits it, which is of no avail.

The only way seems to be to take the initiative to leave the city, but this is also the worst way.

"Crunch~~~Crunch~~~"

In such a short while, the city gate has been completely deformed, and it is about to be pulled down.

"There is no other way, prepare to fight!" The city guards knew that they were powerless to prevent the enemy from breaking into the city, and the only choice was to fight the enemy inside the city.

Hearing what the general said, the expressions of the surrounding soldiers changed, and their eyes turned uneasily.

With 70,000 of them, how could they beat the 200,000 Great Xia Imperial Army? Even the Imperial Forest Army, the strongest in the imperial court, was beaten into a panic by the Great Xia Imperial Army when they were superior in strength.

What's more, they only have one-third of the enemy's number. If they really want to fight, they will die. Thinking that the east gate has not been blocked yet, some soldiers are already planning how to escape from the battle and escape to the east gate.

"Boom!"

Xichengmen was the first to be overwhelmed and fell to the ground.

"charge!"

Ma Chao, the commander of the Second Army, waved his spear and gave the order for a general attack.

"kill!"

After receiving the military order, teams of cavalry rushed towards the city gate like a flood, turning a blind eye to the arrows shooting overhead. In the face of absolute numbers, the rain of arrows could no longer pose a great threat to the army.

The mighty army ran on the bluestone streets, making a "da da" sound.

At the end of the street, the Great Zhou Army hastily assembled, looking at the rushing army with trepidation, their calves were trembling. The fierce reputation of the Great Xia Forbidden Army is really frightening.

This is a completely asymmetrical battle.

Almost at the same time, the north and south city gates were also broken, and the third army and fourth army entered the city. The three armies were like a competition, and they were bound to set off a heinous slaughter in the city.

Seeing Huo Qubing outside the city, his expression was not even a trace of excitement.

Such a result has long been expected by him. For the imperial guards, winning Pingshan City can only be regarded as a warm-up, and then they will set off huge waves in the entire Kyoto province.

In just one morning, Pingshan City was completely captured by the Daxia Imperial Guards.

In fact, the three armies fought in the city for less than an hour, and the Great Zhou army completely collapsed, no longer fighting, either surrendering, or fleeing to the east gate, without any desire to fight.

The city guard was trampled into meat paste among the rebellious army.

After killing the defenders, the Great Xia Forbidden Army did not hesitate, and directly set fire to more than ten large granaries in the city, leaving no grain left.

The flames shot straight into the sky, bringing up billows of smoke that could be seen from far away.

The court of the Great Zhou Dynasty frugalized their food and clothing, and the food that they had finally collected from the people was burned like this. When the people in the city saw it, they burst into tears of distress.

The reality is so cruel.

Although the Jin Dynasty and the Central Plains provinces were short of food, if they couldn't take it away, they could only burn it.

Without this batch of food and grass, the military operations of the Great Zhou in the Great Jin were already unsustainable, basically declaring that the Battle of the Great Jin had died halfway. In this case, if Da Zhou wants to attack Da Jin by force, he can only ask for trouble.

More importantly, the destructive power of the Great Xia Forbidden Army has just begun.

After burning the food and grass, the Imperial Guards of Great Xia did not hesitate, and after having a full meal in the city, they took the prisoners of war and retreated like a tide. These prisoners of war are the secret weapons used by the Great Xia Imperial Army to break open other cities.

In the next two days, the Great Xia Imperial Army continued their efforts and took down three more cities. Without exception, these cities were all food and grass transfer stations set up along the way, and they were all taken down in one pot.

For three days, the military ration pills of the Great Xia Imperial Army were useless, and they were all disposed of on the spot.

Under the command of Huo Qubing, the army sent by Wu Qi to rescue could only eat dirt behind the Daxia imperial guards, and they couldn't even see the shadow of the imperial guards.

This time, Da Zhou was completely panicked.

The wave of fear set off by the Great Xia Imperial Army spread rapidly from west to east. If it weren't for the Great Xia Army's tradition of not disturbing the people, it might have triggered a wave of refugees.

Even so, people are panicked.

Even the people in Handan City began to tremble with fear, fearing that they would become subjugated slaves when they woke up. Calculating the time, at the advancing speed of the Great Xia Forbidden Army, there are at most two days before they can reach the city of Handan.

At this moment, something strange happened.

On August 13th, the Imperial Guards of Daxia who were about to reach Handan City suddenly made a big detour, bypassing the boundary of Handan City, marching all the way in a hurry, and killed the border between the capital province and the Qing Dynasty.

It seems that there is something in Handan City that makes the Great Xia Imperial Guard fearful.

"How is this going?"

The people in Handan who survived the catastrophe felt baffled. Living at the foot of the emperor, there are many well-informed people among the people in Handan, who know that apart from the three thousand guards in Handan City, it is the capital guard division.

This kind of army will not make the Great Xia Forbidden Army fearful at all.

Someone jokingly said: "Could it be that the king's prestige made the enemy fearful?" Those who said this did not believe that their king could have such a prestige.

Even King Xia can't do this.

This incident has become the biggest mystery in Handan City, and only a few people know the inside story.

…………

Handan City, the palace.

Knowing that the Great Xia Imperial Guard suddenly bypassed Handan City, Dichen sighed regretfully.

It turned out that when the imperial guards of Great Xia were in full swing, Dichen finally invited reinforcements, which were the imperial guards from Qin and Tang.

The two countries promised that if the Imperial Guards of the Great Xia dared to attack Handan City, the imperial guards of the two countries would immediately send them to Handan City, and fight against the Imperial Guards of the Great Xia to encircle them and set back the spirit of the Great Xia.

Among them, Qin Shihuang was the most active.

Thinking about it, Meng Yi and Meng Tian's blunt refusal last time still made the emperor feel very embarrassed, and decided to find a place in the Handan battlefield.

As for worrying about having a confrontation with Daxia, the two emperors had already seen through it.

With the development of the situation in Huaxia region to this point, no matter whether Qin and Tang two countries intervene in the Central Plains War, there is no room for relaxation between them and Daxia.

One day, the two sides will meet each other on the battlefield.

That being the case, what's the difference between one day earlier and one day later.

What Dichen and others didn't expect was that the news of their conspiracy was detected by the secret agents of Shanhaiwei, which aroused the vigilance of the Imperial Guards of the Great Xia, and they never approached Handan City at all, causing the Six Nations Alliance to miss the opportunity in vain.

"This favor is useless, what a bastard."

In order to invite reinforcements from the Qin and Tang countries, Dichen didn't have any advantage, and it took a lot of effort to persuade the two countries to formally intervene in the Central Plains War. I never thought it would end like this.

Dichen admired the legendary Shanhaiwei for the first time.